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Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.

The dephasing of the two parts of a single alternating current in two dissimilar branches of a given circuit.

A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; -- commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.

sitions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc.

To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.

The living together in more or less imitative association or even close union of two dissimilar organisms. In a broad sense the term includes parasitism, or antagonistic, or antipathetic, symbiosis, in which the association is disadvantageous or destructive to one of the organisms, but ordinarily it is used of cases wh…

A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current.

A junction of two dissimilar conductors used to produce a thermoelectric current, as in one form of pyrometer; a thermocouple.

Not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance; as, the cases are unlike.

The quality or state of being unlike; want of resemblance; dissimilarity. Tennyson.